by HCD Guest Author | Mar 19, 2015 | Trends
The Center for Health Design’s mission is to develop and provide built environment solutions for healthcare providers as well as architects and designers, supporting the healthcare system we have today as well as re-envisioning what our future healthcare system and...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 18, 2015 | Trends
Early on, before they knew what an architect, designer, researcher, or facility manger really did, this year’s HCD 10 honorees imagined themselves taking different career paths. A few wanted to be teachers or doctors, another an athlete. At the age of 10, one aspired...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 18, 2015 | Trends
This is the first installment of our HCD 10 podcast series, featuring an interview with AECOM’s Christine Hester Devens, this year’s Interior Designer winner. Check back each week for more installments. Christine Hester Devens, an associate principal and interior...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 18, 2015 | Trends
Time. It is the one thing we can’t make more of, and the one thing that costs us the most. This is especially true in a healthcare environment, where clinicians are stretched to their limits—expected to do as much as possible, in a finite amount of time, with minimal...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 17, 2015 | Trends
There’s a whole world of big data out there, but all of that information requires analysis to truly understand how it can shape change. So that’s just what Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation did, shared Peter Valenzuela, chief medical officer for Sutter Pacific Medical...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 16, 2015 | Trends
Two years ago, the board of the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) discussed the inherent problem in its guidelines for the design and construction of healthcare facilities published every four years: they’re reactionary. The process itself takes about seven years to...
by Jennifer Silvis | Mar 16, 2015 | News
Today’s new healthcare landscape, specifically its changing reimbursement models, is having a transformative effect on how providers might best approach the concept of creating flexibility in the built environment. Speakers Jason Busby, senior manager of Kurt Salmon,...
by Kristin D. Zeit | Mar 13, 2015 | Projects
The Angie Fowler Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Institute, inside Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, has undergone a complete renovation of the 8th floor outpatient and 9th floor roof garden. Designed by Stanley Beaman & Sears Architecture...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 13, 2015 | Trends
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject. Jennifer Aliber is a principal at Shepley Bulfinch (Boston and Phoenix). Here, she shares her...
by Anne DiNardo | Mar 12, 2015 | Projects
The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center (Oklahoma City, Okla.) welcomes young patients and their families to its campus with a scene comprising 12 kites and three bronze sculptures of children at play. The 140-foot-long piece, titled “Spirit,” is the work of...
